Zelensky confident the war will come to an end next year

I don't know wnat Donald Trump told Zelensky over the phone after he had won the election. But it seems to have given the Ukrainian leader the confidence to say that under Trump the war with Russia will end sooner. He must mean by that that he has come round to the view that a negotiated end to the war is the only way forward and that he may have to make some significant concessions to Moscow. But if Moscow is allowed to keep every square foot of Ukrainian territory it has seized what on earth was this defence against Russia about? What was the US-led coalition for Kyiv all abou if Moscow is to get what it wanted? OK, Putin really wanted to crush the whole of Ukraine and set up a puppet leader in Kyiv and he failed in that endeavour. But basically, he failed BEFORE the US-led coaliton started pouring weapons into the country. Putin's abject failure to seize Kyiv at the beginning meant it was always going to be a slow, slow war with mass casualties. And that is exactly what has happened in the last near-three years. So will Zelensky now welcome Trump's intervention and go for whatever Moscow agrees to? It looks like it. Then what will the hundreds of thousands of family members of those Ukrainians killed and injured in the war say to their leader. Was this mighty sacrifice worth it? What have we gained? And might it happen all over again?